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I was at the first night of Bridge School and it was just as awful as everyone says. I brought a friend and felt embarrassed during the set. You guys go on about tracking Axl’s rasp on 2018 shows, try finding a crumb of rasp in that entire show. You can count the moments on one hand.

I did like the Neil Young cover coming out of those shows tho

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Of course Dj is not playing the intro wrong, it is the guitar that is out-of-tune or something. But yeah, absolutely terrible. Why didn't they just stop it and have Richard or Bumble play lead instead as soon as they heard the sour notes?

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The Bridge School benefit is becoming almost mythical these days in its awfulness. Fans are holding it up (not necessarily you, Bailey96, just using your post as a stepping stone) as the absolute worst in the history of the band. I think it was great. The band played for a great cause, doing a two day, full acoustic show for kids with various handicaps. Some of the songs on that show had never been played entirely acoustic before. The kids loved it. The band was great. Axl had a very rough first day (but allegedly had a throat infection), but improved massively for the second day. It is not often the band do charity shows, so the greater when they do. Let me phrase it differently: it is not often I feel the band should be proud of themselves, but they should be proud of playing at Bridge School. But as usually, fans will focus on the songs where Axl sang below par and stain the whole show and context with it, when it is something that was pretty cool. Just as we can cherry-pick bad songs, I can cherry-pick good songs, and here is Sweet Child O' Mine entirely acoustic with Dj and Bumble trading solos, Pitman being all Pitman and the crowd having a great time.

And here is Welcome to the Jungle. Again, entirely acoustic which is pretty awesome in itself. Axl sings it well, much better than most shows in 2018, with rasp and that lovely aded intensity to the last part that I so often miss from newer shows. And none of that horrid long intro guitar wankery that Slash does these days.

Yeah it was the best show in Axl's career. His voice never sounded better. It's shame he doesn't sound like this now. Imagine Axl/DC with THIS voice. Oh my god it would be so fuckin amazing. And the band... The Great DJ Ashba and his magnificent solos. And these random notes in Patience Oh DJ... how I wish you were here.. instead of this stupid wanker

Frank at his best, Tommy... the greatest basist in the history of this band

And my favourite artist of all time.. Chris Fuckin' Pitman.. Genius . Look how much he add to the band.. His stage presence,his towel, his awesome backing vocals His voice was so soft, so deep, so BEATIFUL! Not like Melissa's awful voice.

Oh this show was truly kick-ass. My favourite GNR show ever. Second one is RiR2011 it was amazing how Axl recovered his voice from awful 2006-2010 years. Now he's just a shadow of his 2012 self

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Yeah it was the best show in Axl's career. His voice never sounded better. It's shame he doesn't sound like this now. Imagine Axl/DC with THIS voice. Oh my god it would be so fuckin amazing. And the band... The Great DJ Ashba and his magnificent solos. And these random notes in Patience Oh DJ... how I wish you were here.. instead of this stupid wanker

Frank at his best, Tommy... the greatest basist in the history of this band

And my favourite artist of all time.. Chris Fuckin' Pitman.. Genius . Look how much he add to the band.. His stage presence,his towel, his awesome backing vocals His voice was so soft, so deep, so BEATIFUL! Not like Melissa's awful voice.

Oh this show was truly kick-ass. My favourite GNR show ever. Second one is RiR2011 it was amazing how Axl recovered his voice from awful 2006-2010 years. Now he's just a shadow of his 2012 self

Err, never said it was a great show. Just that it wasn't as bad as it has become here at mygrnforum (on of those fan truisms), at least not when considering both days, more than Axl's vocals, and the context.

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Madagascar is one of my favourite songs ever and VMAs 2002 is hands down the worst, weakest version of it ever. His voice sounds so thin and weak like it's about to snap and he actually has to strain to force out "it's never tooo late." It's awful. Compared to the deep rich tones from Rio 3 or his recent full on raspy efforts it's embarrassing. So yeah, 10k for the rehearsal, fuck no.

But it does make you wonder how different things could have been had he come out looking and sounding like 2006-2010. Positive press and a surge in US ticket sales could have changed the whole thing.

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If I were GNR, TB or the idiots who declare themselves as the ones who act in behalf of the band and take care of them (you know who you are), THIS particular video is the one which should have been taken down immediately (!!!) to avoid any further damage to the b(r)and Guns n' Roses. But here we go, it's still there. I just don't get it 😄

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No. Now he put much more effort and rasp into Madagascar. In Jungle he improve after first verse and the rest is good. In PC he puts rasp sometimes and it sound ok. + Now he sings Maddy and PC after 3 hours of performing not 3 minutes. Some of 2002 shows were better than NITL shows but VMA was awful, cringe worthy and embarrassing and this rehearsal is worse

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Everything about this era was so fucked up, from the change in sound and appearance of the band, and all of the other bullshit, that it was very Guns N' Roses.

I don't know why Axl sounded as bad as he did at that rehersal, or during the actual performance but it's a shame because had he went out there and fucking killed it, maybe the NA tour would have sold better.

There were some really great shows on that tour and I would have liked to hear more of that.